Axl Rose first saw Stephanie Seymour on the March 1991 cover of Playboy and insisted he had to meet her and cast her in his videos. Stephanie was dating Warren Beatty at the time. The couple eventually became engaged. After living together for two tempestuous years they broke up in 1993. Seymour claimed that Axl beat the crap out of her. If it’s true, I’ll never understand it.